Robert Muir created SOLR-13983:
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             Summary: remove or replace process execution in SystemInfoHandler
                 Key: SOLR-13983
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13983
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Improvement
      Security Level: Public (Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
            Reporter: Robert Muir


SystemInfoHandler is the only place in solr code executing processes. 

Since solr is a server/long running process listening to HTTP, ideally process 
execution could be disabled (e.g. with security manager). But first this code 
needs to be removed or replaced, so that there is no legitimate use of it:

{noformat}
try { 
      if (!Constants.WINDOWS) {
        info.add( "uname",  execute( "uname -a" ) );
        info.add( "uptime", execute( "uptime" ) );
      }
    } catch( Exception ex ) {
      log.warn("Unable to execute command line tools to get operating system 
properties.", ex);
    } 
    return info;
{noformat}

It already looks like its getting data from OS MXbean here, so maybe this logic 
is simply outdated or not needed. It seems to be "best-effort" anyway. 
Alternatively similar stuff could be fetched by reading from e.g. /proc file 
system location if needed.



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